Re: creepy: Hatikvah

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

According to Macy Nulman's Concise Encyclopedia of Jewish Music,
Hatikvah (the poem, not the store) is from "The nine-stanza poem,
originally called 'Tikvatenu' (Our Hope), [and] was written in 1878 by
the itinerant Hebrew poet Naphtali Herz Imber (1856-1909)."   I guess
that Hitler can't get "credit" for that.

Bob

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From: Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com <Klezcorner (at) aol(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: creepy


>
>In a message dated 12/28/99 1:25:28 PM, L_Cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org
writes:
>
><<  For whatever influence
>>  Hitler may have had on the 20th century, it seems a shame to give
what
>>  could be considered an honor to this man.  >>
>
>I think you missed the point of the poll. This is not a poll on who
is the
>most popular, but who influenced the course of the world in the 20th
Century,
>be they for the good or the bad.
>That being the criteria, Hitler definitely has my vote.  Look at our
music,
>"Zug Nit Kein Mul", "Vie Ahein Zol Ich gein", even "Hatikvah" (in
this case
>the Anthem, not the store) they all came about from a very negative
event.
>It would have been better that the reason for these songs and so many
others
>- as well as"Schindler's List" and all the Holocaust Museums in the
world
>should not exist today, but unfortunately they do....for this, you
can
>"credit" Hitler.
>For me, he is the most influential person of the 20th Century...that
in
>itself is a tragedy!
>Simon
>
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